- Oct 19, 2005
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I don't think he's been that poor but the team as a whole has been pretty bad and very few have been performing anywhere near their true potential.I’m a big HW fan and a couple of years ago just before another injury, many of us thought he was just about to catapult himself into a world class midfield player that would be first choice in the england team for a decade
Sadly that didn’t happen and he hasn’t progressed as we’d have liked. Personally I think it has a lot to do with all his injuries and the chronic injury (ankle!?) that Poch talked about a while ago
For me (as a big fan) he’s had some very very poor and disappointing games of late but has been excellent in the last 2
Whether this is due to sometimes feeling really fit and well and other times playing with pain, I don’t know but imo quite a lot of the time he seems to play within himself and seems to be holding back, fearing another injury setback
Fingers crossed he can continue to manage his Injury issues but I fear we'll never quite see the HW we hoped we would
I'm just really hoping that he's going to kick on from here.